Re: Re: PHP 5.6.0beta2 Released for Testing!

Ferenc Kovacs in php.internals (Fri, 2 May 2014 19:02:13 +0200): >On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote: >> At the time when doing this change, I had fixed all the bundled extensions. >> >> So, e.g. opcache shouldn't be a problem. > >my bad, on a closer look, I can see that in ext/opcache it is conditional: >#if ZEND_EXTENSION_API_NO <= PHP_5_5_API_NO > case IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY: >#endif At least 14 extensions will have to adjust their code and differentiate between pre and post 5.6. >> Actually, I made the commit beginning of April, I think that are nearly >> three months time to fix the extensions. I doubt that isn't enough… > >maybe, I just wish this could have happened a bit earlier in the process, >and if we could have communicated it better (instead of waiting for the >first ext dev to complain). Even with excellent communication it is hard to reach every dev. Xcache is one example of an extension with little connections to the PHP community. I think it will take a consirable time before Xcache is fit for 5.6. there may be many more extensions out there that suddenly will break. This will be a real hindrance to the acceptance of 5.6. Jan